Corporations

Outdoor Industry CEOs Weigh in on Climate

The North Face, Aspen, and climate policy 0
Posted 2 weeks ago When North Faces start melting, and Aspens start dying, it gets the attention of two CEOs from namesake companies. The CEOs of The North Face and Aspen Skiing Company weigh in on the urgency of climate policy action.
Interns saving the world

Climate Corps interns save Fortune 500 firms $54 million 4
Posted 1 month ago MBA students from the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps identified energy efficiency measures that will save an estimated $54 million at Dell, eBay and 20 other Fortune 500 companies.
These boots were made for cutting carbon

Timberland CEO Jeff Swartz on the new corporate push for climate action 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago Jeff Swartz belongs to a coalition of businesses that is lobbying congress and the administration to pass climate legislation.
Inside Newsweek’s new green corporate rankings 3
Posted 2 months ago On Monday, Newsweek magazine unveiled its first annual Green Rankings, the fruits of a near-Herculean endeavor: rating and ranking the environmental performance, achievements, and reputation of the S&P 500. The resulting rankings are straightforward, almost elegant, but it wasn't a straight or easy path. Like most such rankings, they're imperfect.
Kennedy thanks megacorporations for their pedagogy during elections

Supreme Court justices say the darnedest things 3
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
During the widely-watched Supreme Court re-argument Wednesday morning of Citizens United v. Federal Election Coalition – a case that challenges the constitutionality of over a century of campaign finance laws restricting corporate spending during elections – the Justices' varying opinions on corporations were on full display. While some, notably Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, expressed concern at the enormous influence of "mega-corporations" in politics, others seemed far more sympathetic to corporations' motives.
Sell Abrasions

Umbra on green-company buyouts 13
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago